Month: September 2018

Today, on 28th September, the largest security and foreign policy forums in the Baltic Sea region – The Rīga Conference 2018 – commences at the National Library of Latvia. Over the next two days the conference will welcome heads of states, experts, diplomats, academics and media representatives together with some 700 experts from around the world discussing touching questions to the Western alliances. […]

Lietuvos Energijos Gamyba (LEG), a part of the state-owned Lietuvos Energija Group, has plans to build an experimental floating photovoltaic solar power plant in Kruonis pumped storage hydroelectric power plant (Kruonis PSHP). The floating solar power plant would be the first in the region, a press release from Lietuvos Energija states. […]

Lithuania has been gradually becoming one of the high tech centres in the region – the country has defined a goal to become the most attractive European country for the development of the life sciences sector by 2030. On 26 September, during Life Sciences Baltics, the largest international life sciences baltics forum in the Baltic countries, Lithuanian Minister of Economy Virginijus Sinkevičius presented perspectives for the development of the Lithuanian life sciences industry, a press release from Enterprise Lithuania states. […]

Lithuania’s industrial real estate market will take a big leap forward with the upcoming launch of FlexStart, a new development of customisable industrial premises in Klaipėda FEZ. The project will deliver a much-needed solution to the needs of foreign investors for ready-to-use premises, enabling companies to get up and running in as little as three months. […]

With the municipal elections drawing closer, Farmer-Greens leader Ramūnas Karbauskis has proposed to allow civic committees to form electoral coalitions with one another and parties. Experts warn that this is a step, which weakens the […]

During the last weekend of September, the Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress Centre Litexpo will accommodate one of the major active leisure promotion events in Lithuania’s capital – Vilnius Sports and Culture Festival. It will also embrace a number of weekend events that make part of the European Week of Sport weekend BEACTIVE Night. […]

The Story of BATUN – Baltic Appeal to the United Nations (1966-1991) by Sirje Okas Ainso, was published in the US in 2018. It was presented at the AABS (Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies) conference at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA, on June 1-3. […]

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė, currently on a visit to the United Nations, said on Thursday globalization has a dark side as it has promoted exclusion and inequality. But the president also called against rejecting the ideas of transnationality. […]

Startups and other businesses developing financial technologies (FinTech) will soon be able to test their innovative products in a live environment under the guidance and supervision of the central bank of Lithuania. Submission of applications to enter the Bank of Lithuania regulatory sandbox opens on 15 October 2018, a press release from the institution states. […]

On 28 and 29th September the National Library of Latvia in Riga will host the annual high-level security and defence forum “The Rīga Conference 2018”, bringing together almost 800 participants from across the world. The conference, organised by the Latvian Transatlantic Organisation in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defence, has been shaping the foreign policy debate in the Baltic Sea region since 2006, a press release from the Latvian Transatlantic Organisation states. […]

The Lithuanian parliament’s decision to allow the government to change its decisions on the million-worth waste-to-energy combined heat and power (CHP) plants under construction in Vilnius and Kaunas will not have impact on the projects, state-run energy group Lietuvos Energija (Lithuanian Energy), says. […]

A quota set for radio broadcasters to give at least a third of their air to Lithuanian contents would give Lithuanians artists 1 million euros in additional revenue, Vaidas Stackevičius, head of the Lithuanian Music Business Association, says. […]

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